#scary weevil

[shrimpsodas]

me (afraid of bugs) when i look up images of bugs (scary) and im afraid of them (the bugs)

[kurouzus]

for someone with a severe fear of bugs i do take a lot of pictures of bugs. but yknow what. yknow what that is. character development

[spookyhoax]

why on earth did i filter this

[weevilsdaily]

When I was a kid I was afraid of weevils specifically because I'd never actually seen what they looked like and the name sounded scary to me but then one day I actually saw a photo of one in a book and immediately lost all fear forever

the name strikes fear but the nose brings joy

[royilyoily]

how do people find weevils scary

like this guy ain’t gonna hurt you lil bro he hardly knows he’s alive

[the-owl-tree]

what's your favorite insect?

my taste in insects via reading is so different from my taste in insects being experienced irl LMAO thankfully i live in a snowy hellscape so we dont have any scary insects here

but i've always thought brood parasites (parasites in general) and mimicry insects were super cool, i also really like honeypot ants. i just think they're super neat. visually, i'll be boring and go with butterflies, moths, and beetles - just such beautiful bugs :D

weevils are also pretty silly looking. little guys.

[pariskim]

jack harkness funniest character ever because hw tries very hard to be romantic but hes also the most insane person alive. hes like ianto lets have sex and hes like yay okay 😊❤️ and then jack brings him to the scary basement next to the weevils like welcome to my home. he loves spending time with tosh so hes like can you come with me to check out the mangled dead corpse just the two of us 🥺❤️

[burnwater13]

Grogu was rested now. Too rested. His dad had been adamant that, after he ate, not gobbled, he never gobbled, his soup, he had to go to bed and get some rest. Grogu hadn’t wanted to rest because now his mind was reeling with all sorts of ideas and plans and things that he could do to scare the Mandalorian and everyone else who attended the Dark and Stormy Night festival of stories that make you cry in fright! 

His dad hadn’t cared about what would happen if Grogu ended up overfilled with ideas that he couldn’t release. Grogu was pretty sure that the Mandalorian still thought he had a cold or the flu or something called Jawa Fever.  Just calling it Jawa Fever seemed wrong unless you became a Jawa because of it or something along those lines, which had filled Grogu’s head with even more ideas of things he could add to the Dark and Stormy Night festival. He tried to explain it to his dad, but all the Mandalorian said was, ‘Fine. I’ll tell you a bedtime story.’

Grogu had agreed reluctantly. Yes, he loved it when his dad told him stories. It was a great opportunity to learn more about where the Mandalorian had visited, the people he knew, and the things he had done. Although, to be fair, Grogu didn’t really need to hear any more stories about armor polish or the importance of performing routine maintenance in accordance with the manufacturer’s maintenance schedule. He’d heard those stories already and learned that, while necessary, they were very boring, when what you really wanted to hear about was life on Aq Vetina or Concordia. 

As soon as Grogu was all tucked into his bed after pretending to brush his teeth, the Mandalorian sat on the edge of the bed and began to tell him a story. 

“It was a dark and stormy night, on Coruscant. Many levels below the Galactic Senate, rain was falling on the path of the unbelievers. The unbelievers were those people who were so poor they couldn’t travel to the top levels of Coruscant and no longer believed that they lived on a planet, but instead believed that they lived inside a great machine. The rain smelled rank and polluted and made the path the unbelievers followed slippery and mucky.”

Grogu settled down and relaxed. This story had potential. First, it wasn’t about armor polish and second, his dad seemed to sense that he needed to hear a scary story. Good. Good.

“A small boy and his pet ground weevil were walking along that muck, stinky path when they heard a sound they had never heard before. It was a hideous, heartbreaking, terrifying sound, of great pain and humiliation. The boy, Ugorg, stopped in his tracks and clutched the small ground weevil to his side. No one had ever heard a sound like that and Ugorg was afraid. 

‘Bitty Bellie, what should we do? That sound was awful and I am frightened.’ Ugorg asked his pet. Bitty Bellie, being a braver than average ground weevil growled and showed it’s little teeth and bristled as if it were a creature ten times it’s actual size. This made Ugorg feel braver and he and Bitty Bellie began to walk forward again. 

The rain got worse, but the two travelers of the path had to reach a safe place within the great mechanism. Once they reached it, they would be protected from the slimy, oily, smelly rain and would be able to eat their meager daily meal and begin their search for scraps to sell. 

Ugorg was feeling better by the time they reached the passage way into the great mechanism when suddenly they heard the screeching sound again. The boy stood still and his pet weevil his behind him. It was clear that the sound, the terrible, terrible noise, was coming from in front of them. It was closer and more awful than the first time they had heard it and Ugorg had to think about moving forward or turning around and running away.”

Grogu smiled at that part of the story. He’d had to do that a bunch of times too. He’d been stuck places and had been scared and didn’t know what to do. When he was lucky, Ian had been with him, like that time they explored the bottom basement of the storage area and found the entrance to the Sith alter. That had been awful and wonderful at the same time. He and Ian had run back to the youngling quarters and promised each other that they would never go back there or tell another person about what they found. They didn’t want anyone else tempted to join the Darkside or even trip into it.  

“Fortunately, Bitty Bellie growled again and raised their hackles and that gave Ugorg the courage to continue into the great mechanism. They walked slowly, carefully examining areas they had been through a thousand other times. They didn’t want whatever horrible creature that made that ear splitting, soul rending sound to pop out behind them. They just wanted to get to their little safe place and eat and then maybe get some rest. It was too terrifying to even think about looking for scrap, until the creature was captured and removed from the great mechanism.

With time and great care, the two companions reached their little safe space, an old, abandoned storage closet from eons ago. Ugorg carefully opened the door and Bitty Bellie sniffed at everything before entering. Ugorg followed his pet and best pal and found that his tiny home was still safe and sound. Relieved, they got comfortable and Ugorg pulled the small amount of food they had been able to buy on the level above out of his pocket. He began to split it in two when it happened again. The awful, painful, blistering screech of a creature in pain and fury. This time the sound came from right outside of their door.”

What?! No! That wasn’t fair! Ugorg and Bitty Bellie should at least be able to eat before the awful critter tore them to pieces! At least, that’s what Grogu told his dad in no uncertain terms. 

“Buddy, I promise you, everything is going to be fine. I thought you liked scary stories?” His dad commented, pausing to help re-arrange Grogu’s covers. 

Grogu had pulled them up close to himself and into a kind of messy ball. He hadn’t even realized he’d done that while he was listening to the story. 

“Okay, do you want to hear the rest of it now or do you want to sleep?”

Grogu chirped and coughed. Maybe he was coming down with a cold.

“Okay. It’s almost finished anyway. Now, where was I?… oh yes. This time the sound came from right outside of their door. Ugorg signaled to Bitty Bellie to be as quiet as the little ground weevil could be. He didn’t want his pet growling at the critter to be the cause of their untimely demise. Bitty Bellie seemed to understand that and stayed right next to Ugorg, hoping the critter would leave them both alone. 

But then, it happened! The door knob began to turn. Ugorg and Bitty Bellie looked at each other and began to cry. They weren’t ready for the end. But at least they had each other. Ugorg hugged Bitty Bellie tightly as they both waited for the door to creak open. They waited in tense silence for their end… The creature must have seen them. It must know that they were defenseless. And then they heard the most awful words they had ever heard in their brief lives… ‘Din Djarin! How many times have I told you to clean up after your ground weevil?! If I step on one more bit of soup bone, you will both be cleaning this floor every day for a week!’”

What the heck? What kind of creature did stuff like that?!

“My mom was not impressed with the mess my pet ground weevil and I made when we were playing ‘adventure time’. I learned to clean up after Bitty Bellie better. Okay, buddy. Get some sleep. You look tired. Okay?”

Sure Dad. Sure. Now, Grogu was busy thinking about Din Djarin as a boy who named his pet Bitty Bellie. What kind of silly name was that? The ground weevil’s name should have been something like…

Giggs, Gedonian Ground Weevil. Star Wars Young Jedi Adventures

[rocksinmuffin]

Weevil underwood yandere please. t/y

As far as yanderes go, Weevil Underwood is probably one of the easier ones to deal with.

He’s not dangerous so much as he is just kind of creepy. He’s definitely the type of guy who will follow you around wherever you go, collecting souvenirs if he’s lucky. If you leave behind a drink he is exactly the type of freak that will be thinking about indirect kisses as he gulps down whatever room temperate remains of iced coffee and backwash remains, then pockets the cup to add to his collection. He is not above taking the cup out of the trash either.

If you catch him following you he will very much pretend he doesn’t see you. Literally leaning against the wall, whistling, turning his head at an unnatural angle to avoid looking at you and making himself look so suspicious in his desperation to be inconspicuous. It’s honestly kind of sad and his stalkerish tendencies are more annoying than they are scary so you kind of just let it go and pretend you don’t know.

He isn’t violent so you don’t have to worry about him killing anyone you get close to. Frankly, he’s pretty small and spindly so it would be funny if he tried. At most, he might try to bully or intimidate some of your friends if he thinks they’re the type to be easily intimidated but anyone with a backbone just gets his glare and silent curses for taking up your time and attention.

If he has been following you long enough and he has not been caught or called out by you, he will probably attempt to break into your house. He won’t do anything too nefarious. Maybe just lay on your bed and breathe deeply as he thinks about how you spend every night in this very spot. He might even take an item of clothing. Like an old oversized shirt you use for pajamas; something that’s faded and has a hole or a stain and it smells like you.

He’s pretty content just following you around. He’ll never try to pursue anything further with you unless you try to initiate a relationship (friendship or otherwise) with him first but, honestly, why would you want to? If you acknowledge him and talk to him his whole face with flush and he will probably pass out from overheating.

[jakowskis]

there r so many things torchwood doesnt bother to explain and i wonder about them. i could make a list but currently im thinking abt carys not killing owen. obvi they just couldnt kill him off but i wish there was an in-universe explanation of why, bc by all means within the context of the episode she shouldve. i once saw someone say its bc hes trans and yanno what ill take it but within what the writers were thinkin themselves i woulda loved an explanation. like maybe the alien in her sniffed him n went 'atrocious vibes No Thanks' FSHJKFD (although that wouldnt make sense bc some of the guys she kills had worse vibes than owen). or maybe an alien had recently splashed some goop on him and it threw his smell off and the sex alien was like 'u smell weird Ew'. or maybe it's tied to whatever shit he's got going on w the weevils??? like i wish there was some kind of canonical explanation. its crazy to me several of the torchwood members have weird shit going on with them and its never explained. gwen n ianto are both mildly psychic. ok, they grew up on the rift and theyre empaths, fine, whatever. wtf's going on w owen. shawty whats ur problem. besides the human mental illness like what are the aliens sensing thts scaring them / making them not want to be near him. maybe it is the mental illness maybe his unmedicated toxic ass is just that scary. the weevils can connect w him telepathically cuz hes been studying them or smth n close proximity n then theyre just scared shitless by all his inner angst bc weevils dont experience shit like that. like imagine being a kinda-animal living comfortably n then u get whammied with the inner turmoil of a dude who feels 500 emotions a minute. i'd whine and growl too. this turned into yet another 'whats the deal w owen n the weevils' rant but oh well. actually i would take that explanation like that one or a few weevils bonded with owen bc he studies them and spends more time with them than any other human n then bc they can all broadcast shit to each other hes familiar to all of them but they also cannot handle the shit hes got going on and then once the whole death thing happens its Worse. fucked up weevil jesus but hes accidentally nuking them w suffering the likes of which theyve never seen. oh i dont know i just dont know

[yifftwiceplz]

you can be a weevil

i dont got any kind of shapeshifting ability and bug surgery is expensive and scary

[onenicebugperday]

@yukicormyr submitted: I found some good bugs lately! :D the dragonflies were kind enough to sit still while I fumbled with my camera, the grasshopper was too cute chilling on the shroom, i got to see the little bug on the yellow flower doing a little pollen dance, the chubby green fellow squeaked when I picked up his stick to deposit him off of the trail- adorable, and the last three visited me at home. I hope they're all having good buggy lives, especially the big squeaky boy. I'm in [removed] (please remove), so I'd love to know what some of these fellows are, especially the chunky caterpillar because i love him.

Ohhh I love the caterpillar most of all, too! It’s very cute when they squeak at you. So scary don’t worry I won’t eat you. The dragonflies both look like eastern pondhawks to me. They can be either green or blue. The grasshopper looks like it’s in the genus Melanoplus, but I can’t say which species. The friend on the yellow flower I’m afraid is too blurry to ID! The caterpillar is a sphinx moth, maybe a walnut sphinx? It’s hard to tell with the lighting if there are the diagonal white stripes on the side of the body I’d expect to see in that species. They aren’t always super pronounced. But everything else lines up with the walnut sphinx. The next is a weevil though I don’t recognize which offhand, and the last is a Virginia creeper sphinx :)

[skulkie]

Now I would tell you 'bout Boll Weevil But that bug is just too scary He's sittin' there all alone I try to coax him out with milk chocolate pies But he would not move a muscle, and I tried To make him see that the sun is shining outside

Boll Weevil by The Presidents of the United States, a song which fucks, btw,

[windylandscape]

what are your thoughts on weevils :3

bugs scary :C weevils r pretty alright tho

[almightyhamslice]

Insektober day 27: Pollen

Ft @emilyrosebug's black widow Verigreen, Violette!! I rlly wanted to draw her n Zarojo having tea together. I also really wanted to draw Violette's house! It fascinates me that Verigreen society is presumably flight dependent and yet Violette lives in it without wings & it made me rlly think abt how she lives as a spider in a bug world! So her home is hyper specialized specifically for her-- it's all one web with several shelves, and the lowest point is the center of the web that holds a table; her dining room! She can't really eat solid food, so the table has indentations that can hold cups and bowls and prevent them from falling, but she doesn't own any plates since she has no need for them.

Zarojo is very comfortable climbing onto Violette's web since they're friends, but I imagine most bugs would be very scared about it! After all, the web's kind of sticky and wobbly, so your average Insektor would probably stumble around and fall over! Or worry about being eaten! But I'm sure Violette only drinks other animal blood, not Insektor blood. She's not a vampire or cannibal! (though IRL black widows TOTALLY eat hymenopterans and weevils and beetles lol. So I guess she and Zarojo do have something in common even though she might eat them irl????)

I like the idea of these 2 being friends cuz they match in a lot of ways I think... I mean, they're both named after colors for one, and they're cute characters based offa scary bugs irl, so they're both a little misunderstood! Zaro is also pretty antisocial n doesn't have a whole lot of friends outside of their sister, so I think it's nice that they n Violette r pals!

Silly design ramblings under the cut:

Fun fact, I have this list of like,,, not rlly canon Insektors design conventions I follow whenever I make a new bug OC and I sometimes break them when I draw others' characters! One of them is that my designs can't/don't have normal eyelashes, which is why the only character I designed that has them, is Unity, who has antennae that look like eyelashes! Anyways so I break this rule every time I draw someone else's Insektors OC cuz it's a funny rule I made up and only I follow it LOL. If you're curious, my other 'conventions' are that the Insektors can't have eyebrows and they can't blush. They also never have accurate limb counts and they have varying eye counts lol. It's always like,, 2 less limbs and however many eyes look good in the design? Like did you know those drops on Zarojo's forehead represent their oceli? Now you do. Max straight up doesn't have oceli! I just reference them whenever I feel like it lol!

[iii-days-grace]

I think I decided on everyone’s camp names for the camp maggot setting, although I don’t know what to do with this information. I went with more traditional naturey nicknames mostly.

No idea if I’ll actually write a story with this setting but it’s fun to daydreamb. For those keeping track

Summary: Sweet Pea (Sid), Gecko (Joey), Piglet (Paul), Bug (Chris), Biscuit (Jim), Cricket (Craig), Moose (Shawn), Bubbles (Mick), Tigger (Corey) Blossom (Alessandro), Juju (Jay), Slinky (Michael)

Gecko & Slinky work in Climb

Bug & Juju work in Arts and Crafts

Biscuit & Bubbles work in Camping

Moose & Blossom work in Nature

Piglet works in Paddle

Cricket works in Archery

Tigger works in Swimming

Loose reasoning/inspo:

Sid: Sports (nn Sweet Pea)

I think it was Ross (?) who said something like that Sid puts an ‘amazingly sweet vibe into every room’. Of course he’s a sweetpea.

Joey: Climbing (nn Gecko)

I was thinking of cresties because there’s a black/red variant (more orangey tho) and they have cute, grippy little paws. They could probably hold tiny drumsticks. Plus in this setting obviously they’re good at climbing.

Paul: Paddle aka boating (nn Piglet)

They are both friend shaped (also obviously referencing his pig mask although I don’t know if they have a band yet).

Chris: Arts & Crafts (nn Bug)

Originally I thought of Weevil (a reference to his mask , weevils are beetles with long snouts). Bug sounded better.

Jim: Camping (nn Biscuit)

a nickname from camperhood, after Seabiscuit because he had/has ‘horse girl hair’. Also because he is all legs like a horse.

Craig: Archery (nn Cricket)

Still notoriously quiet here so, so crickets.

Shawn: Nature (nn Moose)

Big, cranky, could kill you, looks cute, could kill you, still cute.

Mick: Camping (nn Bubbles)

Just one of those dumb nicknames that are like opposites, he gets a cute nickname because he’s big and kinda scary. But the kids still love him.

Corey: Swimming (nn Tigger)

Boundless energy. Also ginger. This just felt right too.

Alessandro: Nature (nn Blossom)

I am once again thinking about the flower beard pic but this one also just felt right. And a little bit more opposite-nickname funny because blossoms are small and delicate.

Jay: Arts and Crafts (nn Juju)

Just a play on his name from Jay to Jay-Jay Juju. This one just felt right.

Michael: Climbing (nn Slinky)

This guy is constantly moving I swear. Also I think he gets accidentally tangled in the low ropes elements a lot. Maybe not so accidentally too.